In a letter to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), game teachers’ sports organizations asked that their credentials be accepted for use in teacher promotion interviews.
During games instructors’ clinics, the Commission’s acceptance of sports awards was brought up, and they criticized TSC for undermining them.
During the January and February teacher promotion interviews, TSC for the first time scrapped recognition of sports certificates from the promotion interview scorecard.
Instead TSC awarded marks to instructors who invigilated, supervised and scored the national examinations and assessments to encourage administration and marking of national exams and assessments.
This has rubbed the games teachers the wrong way. Officials of the Kenya Primary Schools Sports Association (KPSSA) and Kenya Secondary School Sports Association (KSSA) are now calling for a review of the promotion scoresheet to include games and sports accolades.
The Commission will in April issue promotion letters to teachers were successful during the January and Promotion interviews.
TSC will publish a list on its website of teachers who will successfully get promoted.
The promotion interviews for post primary school teachers which started on 27th January ended on 6th February 2025.
Post primary institutions include Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and Secondary schools.
The promotion interviews for primary school teachers which started on 13th January ended on 23rd January 2025.
The Commission had advertised 25,288 promotion slots for both primary and post primary school teachers.
TSC first advertised 5,690 promotion slots for school administrators through Advert 1 to 4 of 2024 which ran from 12th to 18th November, 2024.
TSC then on 17th December 2024 advertised additional 19,943 slots for teachers from job group C1 to D3 to apply online.
Of these 16,109 slots went to primary schools while a total of 9,179 positions went to post primary institutions.
This years promotions just like last years registered a huge number of teachers applying for the various advertised positions.
According to TSC a total of 189,000 teachers applied for promotions and were shortlisted where 96,640 were primary school teachers and 44,043 were post primary school teachers.
This years promotion interviews was different from last years as no questions were asked by the interviewing panels.
The interview panels which consisted of Sub County Directors, Human Resource Officers and Curriculum Support Officers largely restricted on documents verification.
Teachers were required to present their ID’s, academic and some other documents for verification during the interviews.
The TSC promotion scoresheet favoured aged teachers those aged forty five years and above.
In the scoresheet teachers aged fifty five years and above were awarded 30 marks.
Those aged fifty to fifty four were awarded 26 marks while those aged forty five to forty nine were awarded 22 marks.
Teachers aged forty to forty four scored 18 marks while those aged thirty to thirty nine scored 14 marks in the scoresheet.
Below is a brief check into the promotion scoresheet used by the Commission in this years interviews.
Academic Qualification
Masters -5 Marks
Degree – 3 Marks
Diploma – 1 Mark
Knec Examiner
4 Marks
Length of Stay in Current Grade
7 years and above – 50Marks
6 years – 40 Marks
5 years – 30 Marks
4 years – 20 Marks
3 years – 10 Marks
TPAD Rating
81+ 10 Marks
61- 80 – 8 Marks
41-60 – 6 Marks
21 – 40 – 4 Marks
1- 20 – 2 Marks
Age
55+ years 30 Marks
50-54 – 26 Marks
45-49 – 22 Marks
40-44 – 18 Marks
30-39 – 14 Marks
Presentation
1 – Mark
Those successful will be contacted to pick their promotion letters by the County and Sub County Directors and will be posted to schools where there are vacancies.
The unsuccessful ones will be issued with regret letters and can try their luck next time. TSC was allocated sh 1 billion for promoting teachers this year.
TSC is facing mass retirements of teachers end of June and August this year and the promotions seek to address the numerous vacancies left by HOI’s and DHOI’s who retired and others planned to exit this year.
Those successful will however have to produce the five Chapter 6 documents to complete their promotions.
Chapter 6 of the constitution requires that persons working for the public sector, otherwise known as state officials, exhibit leadership and integrity.
As a result, employers need clearance certificates to confirm that the employee exhibits personal integrity, competence and suitability.
Below are the five documents that are mandatory inline with Chapter six of the Kenyan Constitution on ‘Leadership and Integrity’.
- Valid Certificate of Good Conduct from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)
- Clearance Certificate from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
- Tax Compliance Certificate from Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)
- Clearance from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)
- A Clearance Certificate from an approved Credit Reference Bureau (CRB)